66 articles in last 30 days. We’ve dialed it down a notch or two due to our typical year end malaise we mire down in each December. Mainly due to excessive listening of Dean Martin and Robert Goulet Christmas lps [thanks foodjoy].

We’ve got our major, year end “Essay On Austin Texas Food” coming out soon wherein we issue a sprawling omnibus on the state of cooking, eating and drinking in the greatest town in the state of Texas; Austin.

Now, onto our weekly top 5 Austin Texas food stories. As always, determined by page views. 1] There must be some Istanbul lovers perusing the site. Admin page does show a fair amount of visitors from the blessed land of Turkiye. We snapped a photo on last years visit right here www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/2011/12/13/Austin-Daily-Photo-Istanbul-Turkiye

2] Open in 1986 an East Austin Mexican food legend http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/2011/12/15/Austin-Daily-Photo-Los-Comales-On-E-7th-Street

3] The wildly popular Torchy’s Tacos does not measure up to many, lesser known taco sources around town. We examine their use of factory tortillas http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/2011/12/17/Torchys-Apologists-vs-Scratch-Tortillas-Makers-RL-Reeves-Jr-Speaks-On-Current-Trends-In-Austin

4] Austin never grows weary of King Ranch Casserole conversation. Particularly when it includes both rules of construction as well as a recipe http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/2011/12/16/Austin-Daily-Photo-RL-Reeves-Jr-Explores-The-Topic-Of-King-Ranch-Casserole

5] The scrumptious site is alone in Austin food/nightlife with our coverage of Scenetap stationing facial detection cameras at area nightclubs. We’re ok with that http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/2011/12/15/Parsing-The-Difference-Between-Facial-Recognition-vs-DetectionCole-Harper-Brings-Scenetap-To-Austin

Thanks for checking out the site y’all.

Last week’s top 5 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/2011/12/11/Top-5-Austin-Texas-Food-Stories-This-Week-December-5th–December-12th-2011